No.1 - Be Yourself: The greatest truth comes in the simplest form. Many a person has lived their life someone elses way. They have followed someone else's creed or teaching. Earned their living doing what they are not instead of being what they are. Acted, thought, felt and spoke in every way but their own. Life isn't as difficult when you live it your way. And as you do so enjoy it, welcome it, embrace it, expand it and share it. Give love and give of yourself. Try not to do things to be liked but because you like things. Sing when you feel not when people would listen. Speak your own truths not grown truths. Walk your path rather than follow well trodden ones. Don't be drawn to the light, be the light in the first place!! Be yourself. That's why you are here, that's why you were born. The world needs you - the real you!
No.2 - Honour your Spirit: You are spirit, first and foremost. It lives in you and powers your physical world. A child has spirit when they are at play. A team competes with spirit and we humans do things "in the right spirit". From the spirit in a community to the spirit of our times this force remains an ever present. Yet it can diminish like a fading fire if you fail to recognise it. Your spirit is real. Work out where it shows itself in you and your life and promise to feed and protect it. Maybe your spirit speaks when you do ( like Martin Luther King ). Perhaps it's in your love for others and your work with them ( like Mother Theresa ). Or it might be truly alive in how you inspire and lead ( like Barack Obama ). Whether your spirit is present in being a parent or through your singing or sport or love of animals and nature ensure it stays with you by honouring its existence. When it comes alive, you do. When spirit fails we all do. Don't be dispirited, lift them and live them.
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